Cesar Romero

Cesar Julio Romero, Jr. was born on Feb. 15, 1907, in New York City. The son of Italian and Cuban parents, Romero was the grandson of Cuban poet José Marti, whose populist writings inspired the ballad "Guantanamera." Educated in preparatory schools in New York and Connecticut, Romero was pointed to a career on Wall Street, but by age 22, he was dancing on vaudeville and in New York nightclubs to help offset his family's losses in the stock market crash of 1929. With socialite Lisbeth Higgins, Romero formed Lisbeth and Romero: Aristocrats of the Dance. After hoofing as an ensemble dancer for Florenz Ziegfeld, Romero made his Broadway debut in 1929 in the musical "The Street Singer." He retur... Continue Bio >>